Saint Ann's Bay
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| Coordinates | 18 ° 26 ′ N , 77 ° 12 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Jamaica | ||
| county | Middlesex | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | JM-06 | ||
| Residents | 14,923 (2011) | ||
| founding | circa 1503 | ||
Saint Ann's Bay is a small town in northern Jamaica and the oldest settlement on the island. The city is located in County Middlesex . It is the capital of the Parish Saint Ann of the same name . In 2010, Saint Ann's Bay had a population of 14,923 people.
history
Saint Ann's Bay is the oldest settlement in Jamaica. From Christopher Columbus Bay was first in 1494 on his third expedition to enter. On his fourth voyage , Columbus returned there after battles with indigenous people and a mutiny over the leaky ships. He lived there for about a year between 1503 and 1504 in a fort on the beach. He called the place Santa Gloria . A statue of Christopher Columbus is located near the city at an important traffic junction to commemorate the discovery of the bay. In 1509, the Spanish conqueror and first governor of Jamaica, Juan de Esquivel, founded the Seville la Nueva settlement on the same site, after a city west of Madrid. The settlement became the third capital of the Spanish colonial empire .
Before the year 1526, the Spanish founded the first sugar factories in Seville la Nueva. Saint Ann's Bay is now the island's main exporter of sugar. The city was conquered by English colonialists in 1655. It was then named in St. Ann's Bay after Lady Anne Hyde , the first wife of King James II of England . Saint Ann's Bay became the capital of the parish of the same name, Saint Ann , mainly because of its large port and as an important place for the export of bananas, sugar and bauxite . Ocho Rios later replaced the city as the main exporter, but it is still an important trading city and a popular tourist destination. In 1795, a fort built in 1750 was converted into Jamaica's first prison, named The Old Jail . Many slaves died in this place.
economy
Saint Ann's Bay has a large seaport and is Jamaica's largest sugar exporter. Other important export goods include a. Bauxite and bananas. The city has a large fishing fleet.
Historical buildings
The oldest surviving building in town is St. Ann's Bay Courthouse, built in 1860. Not far from there is the St. Ann Parish Church from 1871.
A statue of Marcus Garvey, one of Jamaica's most famous citizens, was erected in front of St. Ann's Bay Library. Another statue of the discoverer of the bay, Christopher Columbus, stands near the city.
sons and daughters of the town
- Marcus Garvey (1887–1940), politician and publicist
- Floyd Lloyd (born 1949), reggae musician
- Red Rat (* 1978), dance hall singer
- Jodi-Ann Robinson (* 1989), soccer player
- Burning Spear (born 1948), reggae musician
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:
- Jump up ↑ Jamaica Prison History